Ironically, Carter had initially fiercely opposed letting the Shah into the US, but he was persuaded by Kissinger and other supporters of the Shah that the Iranian monarch was close to death from ...
After John Kennedy’s “the best and the brightest” had arrogantly blundered into the Vietnam War and after Washington insiders had gushed over the German-accented cynicism of Henry Kissinger’s foreign ...
On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy.
Few of us who were senior officials on Carter’s foreign policy team are still around to recount those times from “up close and personal.” First, as with Henry Kissinger before him and Brent ...
While “the U.S. is now Taiwan’s strong ally, [Carter and Kissinger] are the ones who made China so difficult to deal with. From the two of them to the Obama era, Washington’s pro-China ...
Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said ...
But repeatedly as president, Carter, perhaps a little insecure about his own Georgia background, yielded to the voices of the establishment. Pressed by David Rockefeller and Kissinger, and wrongly ...